Timshel, however, “throws it right back on a man”, as Steinbeck’s character put it. The man is free to choose. And the man is responsible for his choices. […] I believe that people are free to be as righteous and upright as they care to be. They are free to learn, to adopt, and to reject as much as they care to learn, adopt, and reject. They are free to dream and to strive and to change as much as they’d like. I cannot imagine one single problem, whether in “church” or in society, that cannot be fixed, except for the problem of convincing those who would rather not be convinced. If we all cared to succeed, however, we could fix anything.
It comes down, therefore, to whether there is indeed a choice.